As you may or may-not know next weekend is Anime Expo and it
is more or less the highlight of my year. As Day 0 draws closer time seems to
pass slower and my attention seems to falter more frequently than normal. But
that’s not the point of this topic, no; this topic is to update anyone
interested in keeping up-to-date with Anime Expo related things. Such as their
latest version of the AX Schedule. Or perhaps their latest Guest of Honor Announcements. And even their Mobile App which will launch sometime today. Another thing that will possibly be happening is Crunchyroll’s live
video stream at AX. I would stop by and wave to my many adoring fans (hah hah
hah…) but I’m a little, and by a little I mean extremely, camera shy; but maybe
I can have them hold my /AMP/ card up to the camera. Which reminds me; I need
to check on the status of those…
Anywho, you can follow Anime Expo (and Me if you want)
on Twitter to stay up-to-date on all the latest Anime Expo news. Alternatively
you can visit the AX Forums for even more information and possibly some fun
threads to read. I would like the suggest the “GAME: Name to Name Anime
Character Edition” game thread started by myself, it’s pretty fun if you’ve got
some spare time.
Concerning anime, Crunchyroll has already started
announcing titles for their Summer 2012 Simulcast Schedule! So far there are
only three titles on their list and, to be honest, I haven’t really looked into
any of the upcoming Summer titles (I’m still almost a month behind on most of
the Spring ones), but I can say that I am looking forward to at least one of
these shows. The first announcements was “Muv Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse” I
haven’t done my homework, but I’m pretty sure that this is a side-story to an existing
series, but like I said I’m not sure, I’ll probably have more information when
I find time to look at all of the Summer titles. The second show that
Crunchyroll announced was “The Ambition of Oda Nobuna”; this show is another “Warring
States Era” show, I’m not sure if it is going to be all action like “Sengoku
Basara” or more of a comedy like the currently simulcasting “Warring States Era”
show “Sengoku Collection (Parallel World Samurai)” but I’ll probably check it
out, just because I like me some good ol’ fashion sword fights. And finally
Crunchyroll announced “Yuruyuri Season 2” the sequel to “Yuruyuri”. I’m pretty
excited about this one, the first season was enjoyable and I’m looking forward
to more of the same comedy with Season 2.
And lastly, while I’m on an anime-inspired roll, I’m
probably going to compile a list of the Spring 2012 shows that I watched and
post them on a separate page here on this blog site so that you, my readers,
can know what I’ve watched! I won’t be rating or reviewing them because I can’t
do it. I’m probably better at math than I am writing reviews, and I suck at
math! But I normally don’t continue/finish shows that I find boring/a waste of
time, so if it appears on that page you can assume that I found it somehow
entertaining! But that won’t be for a while one, because I’m not caught up on
the Spring season and two, because the Spring season isn’t quite finished yet.
Just a few quick reminders before I get on with the rest of
the ramble:
I am currently holding an art contest for the cover of my
next short-story, details can be found here
I am also looking for someone to do a guest post next Friday
(since I’ll be livin’ it up at AX); you can leave a comment below or e-mail me
at Semajj07@gmail.com if you’re interested. If I don’t find a guest poster I’ll
probably end up rambling next Wednesday, just to keep my streak going!
I know this ramble is getting lengthy, but I’m in the mood
to write, so…meh! Earlier this week I went to the grave-yard of old games that
is my living room cabinet and dug out one of my favorite games: Rock Band 2! So
I booted up my Xbox, dusted off my plastic six-string (more like five-button)
guitar and got back to rockin’! At first I had some trouble getting into the “groove”
but after a warm-up song I found the beat and scored some pretty rockin’ scores
(considering I hadn’t played since November of last year). I haven’t scored a
gold star yet, but I have completed many songs on Expert with five stars so I
don’t think my half-a-year break took too much out of me. Although, my forearms
did start to feel a bit sore by the end of night one…
And now, it’s time we walk on over (figuratively of course,
you don’t have to get up) to “The Creator’s Corner” to see what’s going on with
the various projects that I am conducting!
Today’s “TCC” is more of a review of all of my current
projects and some of my personal thoughts concerning said projects. First off
is “NEw (title subject to change)” I haven’t been working on “NEw” all too much
lately, although I have “storycrafted” a huge change in the first few “books”
recently so I’ve got my work cut out for me when I get back to trying to
solidify it. I also changed the mechanics of the “Magic Engine” that I may or
may not have mentioned in a previous ramble (I think I have, but I can’t
remember and am too lazy to check), so that will be another small obstacle to conquer
when I return to “NEw”. “Volt” is still “Volt” and I haven’t really done
anything with it, although I did come up with a cool scene with a special guest
character that I think will be fun for everyone. And finally “Eleven” but more
importantly the related short-story “Titan”. I’ve been working a lot on “Titan
II” I’m on my fourth overall rewrite and second “final version” rewrite. It has
changed drastically from version to version and I think it is headed in a good
direction. On that note I am just under 100 downloads for “Titan” and that
makes me really happy! I wish I could have more feed-back, which characters
people liked, what was confusing, what they liked, what they disliked, etc,
etc. But hey I’m over-the-top happy that nearly 100 people have read my story
(well I assume they read it anyway). So if you liked “RE;Inspiration: Titan”
please share it with your friends, here is the link for it; y’know, just in case.
And that’s all folks! Let’s see before we go I’ll show you
the newest item in “Semajj’s Bookshelf” (oh yeah, I’ve dropped the whole
picture thing, I’m just not cut out to be a photographer!) this week I received
“Zakuro the Complete Series Premium Box Set”! I received the box and there was
a big hole in the art box, but since RightStuf is so awesome they’re sending
me a brand new art box and Disc One cover (because that was also damaged when
the box got holed) for free!
And now (I think I’m picking up a bad habit of starting
sentences with “and”) I bring to you the sad score for this week’s game of “Rambler
Versus the World”: 1 to 6, the World. This makes my second loss both in general
and in a row, I don’t know what happened really, almost each (week)day this
week I accomplished two of the three “big” tasks, creating/posting 20 MOTs and
writing 1000 words, but it was the little tasks, mostly watching an episode
from my DVD collection (I’m currently watching Utena) and reading (I’m almost
finished with “Under the Dome”) that did me in. But I still feel a bit
accomplished since I’ve gotten so much work done on my short-story, so I’m
walking away from this loss with a smile!
Finally, the time you’ve all been waiting for! This week’s song
of the week:
This week’s song of the week is an Epic Rap Battle by Nice
Peter (featuring EpicLLOYD) that pits Bill Gates against Steve Jobs. I really
like this ERB and I figured I should share it with anyone who hasn’t yet seen
it! Anywho, I’m off to work on “Titan II” s’more (I can hear the words calling
me!) so, as always if you have any comments, questions, tips or concerns you
can contact me by e-mail at Semajj07@gmail.com, or below in the box-type
things! “Go then, there are other worlds than these!”
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